Hex­els 2

Polyg­o­nal sp ree The Hex­els app goes from quirky to ver­sa­tile

Hex­els 2 is a strong se­quel to an in­trigu­ing app. Now un­der the man­age­ment of Mar­moset, it in­cludes a lot of im­prove­ments that pro­mote it from a quirky paint pack­age into some­thing more ver­sa­tile and ac­com­plished.

The orig­i­nal Hex­els was a grid­based paint­ing app that en­abled you to choose what sort of polyg­o­nal shapes you want to be con­strained by, help­ing paint iso­met­ric im­ages with ease.

Hex­els was al­ways en­joy­able, but ver­sion 2 adds a lot of func­tion­al­ity. Lay­ers en­sure you can ex­per­i­ment non-de­struc­tively and im­port back­ground im­ages to work with. A new stream­lined an­i­ma­tion keyframe editor means you can cre­ate an­i­ma­tions that can be ex­ported as an­i­mated GIFs. Lay­ered PSD ex­port also makes it eas­ier to in­cor­po­rate the pro­gram into your work­flow.